On the other hand I wonder what effect easily accessible credit cards have on overall sales for products like this.
On a personal level it would be a stretch for me to spend $2200 when I could get a used airdyne and an ipad for less than half.
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On a personal level it would be a stretch for me to spend $2200 when I could get a used airdyne and an ipad for less than half.
I’ll be in the flow all morning, but once I have an hour long standup meeting (or similar scattered topic based meeting) I struggle to regain focus for the rest of the day.
Psdoom is doom, except the bad guys are mapped to processes IDs and shooting them sends renice and eventually kill signals.
Firefox tends to consume a lot of system resources on my pretty modest machine.
IMO Google softly requires you to use chrome because their tools, in my experience, are unstable in other browsers (I’m looking at you meet)
The cynic in me is doubtful that this is entirely by accident.
My favorite artists find ways to add a lot of variation, even to simple song structures. By including lots of detail, by playing parts by hand, blending electronic and acoustic instruments, etc.
I think music benefits from imperfections here and there.
In this field a design with something like familiar grey/white fixed-width type on a matte black background, ascii table outlines, and “syntax” highlighting, etc, etc, would probably get some more attention (good or bad)
But it was a good thing overall. I showed me signs that the company has an elevated degree of not invented here culture, and that they aren’t very clear when requesting/scoping work.
I thought about writing something from scratch, but I knew that whatever I could optimize in an hour or two would be nothing compared to more robust tools that already existed. So I used sqlite to ingest the log once, and query it in various ways to produce the requested reports. The script was just a dozen lines long or so, with one dependency (sqlite pkg).
The interviewer didn’t like this answer. didn’t say why. But I’m glad to see that I wasn’t way off base about how performant sqlite can be.
My answer was of course not a prod solution, just an answer to a question with a narrow scope.
NTS and “the lot radio” are in my heavy rotation right now.
Both stations have live DJs usually in 1-2 hour sets, and play a wide variety of music depending on the DJ.
Deleting my fb account has been a positive experience. Real friends stay in touch, and the stressful negative/argumentative comment threads and posts are gone.
Admittedly I still use instagram. Their model works well to let me keep in touch loosely, without highlighting every like/repost/comment of the people who I follow.
The sad truth is hardly anyone truly cares what you are doing at work. Really, think about how much you truly care what your peers do day-to-day.
Your boss and co-workers care about:
a) results
b) not having to deal with bad/negative/pita personalties
c) avoiding crisis
Pull your weight, be helpful, and if you have a boss micromanaging you it’s time to update the resume, not do more work to justify your existence.
For example: Virtually every food item is packaged in plastic. And it’s not consumers who decided it was more cost effective to use disposable plastic than wash a reusable container.
I’ve sat in Herman Miller Aerons at work for many years, and sitting on this all day while working remote has been great. No issues. I’ve had it 4 years now and still going strong. I’ve been quite happy esp considering the cost savings compared to the more “pro” brands.
Not specific to this chair, but I unscrewed the arm rests and find that it helps my posture a lot. With the arm rests attached I tended to lean on one side or the other and would type from an angle that strained my forearms and wrists. Took them off and the pain went away shortly after.
Also I keep the recliner disabled/locked (back stays in upright position) again, to help avoid my common sources of bad posture.
I’d say just contribute and try to get stuff done. Especially if you've only been there a few weeks. Focus on working with the people more than working with the tech.